I had to clean the armature contacts in the motor, and surface the 2 new brushes at a different relief angle.
All seems well.
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Why does āKluge Letterpressā make me feel the same as āFluke Metersā??
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I felt that same way Tuesday night, when I attended a watch party for Dick Armyās old seat.
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What about a āTateās Compass?ā
You know what folks say about them:
āHe who has a Tateās is lostā
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That is great! Iāve yet to be there when that thing fires up. I want to create a print lockup for the thing so we can print something. Is the paper feeder working?
Language, and history of language, is a neat thingā¦
an excerpt:
The pronunciation of ākludgeāāit rhymes with subterfuge and ice luge, not nudge and fudgeāhints at its alternate spelling, ākluge,ā which is still commonly used among programmers. The discrepancy may also offer hints as to the earliest uses of the word, which, like ābug,ā has its own thicket of folklore to untangle.
āItās, um, complicated,ā the linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer told me in an email. āThe short answer is that the word was originally spelled āklugeāāderived from the surname Kluge, in turn from German klug, āclever.ā But then later it began to be spelled as ākludge,ā merging with a U.K. slang term with that spelling (apparently derived from a Scots word for ātoiletā). So now we often get the ākludgeā spelling with the āklugeā pronunciation.ā
The article goes on to suggest that Brandtjen & Kluge systems equipment (i.e. printing presses) might actually be part of the origin story for the AE word kludge as we know it todayā¦
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depends upon what you want to feedā¦
Arthur Lara (our Kluge Jedi Master) tells me that there are 3 or 4 different types of rubber sucker heads we need to have, to feed different materials. We have no rubber sucker heads, but checking their website, I see 28 different items under āSuckersā: Sucker Parts ā Brandtjen & Kluge, LLC
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Dam, thatās a whole lot of suckers.
I think we should start with suckers for paper, preferably #80 cover to begin with. Iām thinking that is a good place to start. What ya say?
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Orā¦I was just thinking, can it be manually fed?